[CASSANDRA-11483] Enhance sstablemetadata

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-alpha1, 4.0
• Component/s: Legacy/Observability
• Assignee: Chris Lohfink
• Reporter: Chris Lohfink

Authors

Chris Lohfink

Reviewers

Marcus Eriksson

• Created: 04/Apr/16 04:42
• Updated: 15/May/20 08:01
• Resolved: 08/Aug/17 11:59

Description

sstablemetadata provides quite a bit of useful information but theres a few hiccups I would like to see addressed:

• Does not use client mode
• Units are not provided (or anything for that matter). There is data in micros, millis, seconds as durations and timestamps from epoch. But there is no way to tell what one is without a non-trival code dive
• in general pretty frustrating to parse

Issue Links

• relates to: CASSANDRA-12020 sstablemetadata and sstabledump need better testing